Success at last. Thanks for the help and guidance to find the correct solution.
I noticed a few new parameters have crept into the auto backup function and
there is no location where all of these things are brought together for a user
to find.
I agree with Unadecal Arado the feature to select a specific time would be a
good addition. I restart my regions daily at 4 am, and sometimes more often
than that.
“It would be great if we had a key called AutoBackupTime = hh:mm, which
schedules a backup for hh:mm no matter what is set, and then at
AutoBackupInterval after that. This way, OAR generation might be more
predictable at longer intervals.”
If I know how to update the wiki or better yet the opensim page found by
Googling “opensim autobackup” with this information, I believe this function of
opensim would be a much simpler function to implement.
I have added this to my .ini file so in the future I can easily make changes
without going through dozens of trial and error operations.
; Configuration Settings
; Global (in OpenSim.ini under [AutoBackupModule] section)
AutoBackupModuleEnabled: True/False. Default: False. If False, every function
in the module is as no-op as possible: just return as soon as realizing that
we're not enabled. Otherwise it will try to get as far as it can with auto
backup for each region.
; Global (in OpenSim.ini) or Per-Region (in Regions/Regions.ini under the
region's name's section)
; IMPORTANT: Settings declared per-region in Regions/Regions.ini override
settings in OpenSim.ini. Settings in OpenSim.ini, in turn, override hard-coded
defaults. AutoBackup: True/False. Default: False. If True, activate auto
backup functionality. This is the only required option for enabling
auto-backup; the other options have sane defaults. If False, the auto-backup
module becomes a no-op for the region, and all other AutoBackup* settings are
ignored.
; AutoBackupModuleEnabled: True/False. Default: False. If False, every function
in the module is as no-op as possible: just return as soon as realizing that
we're not enabled. Otherwise it will try to get as far as it can with auto
backup for each region.
; AutoBackupInterval: Integer, non-negative value. Default: 720 (12 hours). The
number of minutes between each backup attempt. If a negative or zero value is
given, it is equivalent to setting AutoBackup = False.
; AutoBackupBusyCheck: True/False. Default: True. If True, we will only take an
auto-backup if a set of conditions are met. These conditions are heuristics to
try and avoid taking a backup when the sim is busy.
; AutoBackupScript: String. Default: not specified (disabled). File path to an
executable script or binary to run when an automatic backup is taken. argv[1]
of the executed file/script will be the file name of the generated OAR. If the
process can't be spawned for some reason (file not found, no execute
permission, etc), write a warning to the console.
; AutoBackupNaming: string. Default: Time. One of three strings (case
insensitive):
; "Time": Current timestamp is appended to file name. An existing file will
never be overwritten.
; "Sequential": A number is appended to the file name. So if RegionName_x.oar
exists, we'll save to RegionName_{x+1}.oar next. An existing file will never be
overwritten.
; "Overwrite": Always save to file named "RegionName.oar", even if we have to
overwrite an existing file.
; AutoBackupDir: String. Default: "." (the current directory). A directory
(absolute or relative) where backups should be saved. If the path is not a
directory, or insufficient permissions are available, a warning will be printed
to the console and no backups will be taken.
; AutoBackupDilationThreshold: float. Default: 0.5. Lower bound on time
dilation required for BusyCheck heuristics to pass. If the time dilation is
below this value, don't take a backup right now.
; AutoBackupAgentThreshold: int. Default: 10. Upper bound on # of agents in
region required for BusyCheck heuristics to pass. If the number of agents is
greater than this value, don't take a backup right now.
; AutoBackupKeepFilesForDays: int. Default: 0.
; 1) number of days to keep backups (0 the default value will disable this
option).
; 2) After each backup, remove all oars in the backup directory that are
older than the specified number of days.
; note: if the user set the bin directory as the backup location, only oar
files are removed. There is no way to know if an oar was created by
auto-backup, or manually created or uploaded. It is not recommended to use the
bin directory for your auto backups for this reason.
; Example:
;[AutoBackupModule]
; AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true
; AutoBackup = true
; AutoBackupInterval = 30
; AutoBackupBusyCheck = false
; AutoBackupThreshold = 1
; AutoBackupSkipAssets = false
; AutoBackupKeepFilesForDays = 30
; AutoBackupNaming = Time
; AutoBackupDir = /var/opensim/backup/test/
Tom
From: Dahlia Trimble
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 6:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] How to set up autobackup
I had a typo in the last message; I had changed the time to 12 hours after the
test but before copy/pasting. The time is specified in minutes and for 1 hour
it would be:
AutoBackupInterval = 60
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Dahlia Trimble <[email protected]> wrote:
The AutoBackupModule is in OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.dll. I'm not sure
of the origins of the code, if it works properly, or if it is fully implemented
or maintained.
I added the following to the bottom of *OpenSim.ini* and it appears to work:
[AutoBackupModule]
AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true
AutoBackup = true
AutoBackupInterval = 720
AutoBackupSkipAssets = true
AutoBackupKeepFilesForDays = 5
AutoBackupDir = ../backups/
After an hour I found a oar file in the specified directory. There were also
console messages showing output from the save oar task.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Unadecal Arado <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello again Thomas, I managed to work this out. I rummaged through some txt
files I have been collecting with various configuration hacks collected through
chatting to other sim owners in OSGrid and I found this:
[AutoBackupModule]
;; default is module is disabled at the top level
AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true
AutoBackup = true
AutoBackupInterval = 1440
AutoBackupBusyCheck = true
AutoBackupNaming = time
AutoBackupDir = "D:\OARBackups\"
AutoBackupThreshold = 1
I'm not sure what AutoBackupThreshold does, it might be an error in
invoking AutoBackupdilationThreshold since it seems to be undocumented.
At any rate, the key ingredient there seems to be AutoBackup = true to
enable the feature. It started working after I added this.
As a matter of interest, I run the base OS distro and the Metropolis
distro, both at the 0.8.0.3 version level on Windows and there isn't a separate
Autobackup module, but the feature works. Also, the Windows build seems to be
happy with both UNIX and DOS style file paths.
As an aside, I don't think that having autoBackup as an interval from
uptime is the best way to go about this. It works if the sim is undergoing
constant change and you set the intervals short enough, such as 30, 60 or 120
minutes. In any given day, then, you are bound to have several OARs, which is
great.
On the other hand, if the sim is fairly static or you are keen to minimize
overheads and set the intervals to 12 or 24 hours because you don't need more
than 1 or two OARs per day, using Autobackup might not work, particularly if
the simulator restarts for whatever reason (most of my simulators are set to
restart daily). In that case, Autobackup might chase a time interval which will
never come.
It would be great if we had a key called AutoBackupTime = hh:mm, which
schedules a backup for hh:mm no matter what if set, and then at
AutoBackupInterval after that. Yhis way, OAR generation might be more
predictable at longer intervals.
Unadecal
On 23 February 2015 at 06:22, Unadecal Arado <[email protected]>
wrote:
[Update]
I got curious, so I read the relevant Wiki pge
(http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Feature_Proposals/AutoBackup), selected a
currently unused simulator running Metropolis 0803, which is the current
version, inserted this section in the Opensim.ini file:
[AutoBackupModule]
AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true
AutoBackupInterval = 10
AutoBackupDir = /Googledrive/Opensim-005/Embassy/OAR/
AutoBackupNaming = Time
AutoBackupBusyCheck=False
I then restarted the simulator and verified that the AutoBackup
configuration had taken effect by way of the "config show" console command. It
all seemed set, but there are no backups taking place. I have no clues to
follow at this point since the log does not provide any details at all.
On 22 February 2015 at 22:22, Unadecal Arado <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'm not sure if your configuration is not being read correctly, which
is strange because you reference AutoBackup config parameters in your
StandaloneCommon.ini (I assume you include this file in your Opensim.ini) and
also in your regions file.
Have you tried adding these parameters directly into your Opensim.ini?
You might also want to set AutoBackupBusyCheck=False, since it could
also be that the module is procrastinating for some unknown reason.
Hope this helps,
Unadecal
On 22 February 2015 at 21:36, Thomas Ringate <[email protected]> wrote:
I can’t figure out what it is I am doing wrong. I want to set up
autobackup but it is not working for me.
I placed the following into my StandaloneCommon.ini file.
[AutoBackupModule]
AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true
AutoBackupInterval = 30
AutoBackupDir = /var/opensim/backup/OAR/test/
AutoBackupNaming = Time
My expectations were this would set this for all of my regions as
their default and if I wanted something different in a specific region I could
set new values in that region.
I let the simulator run for a few hours and no OAR’s were created at
all.
I then added the following to one of my regions.
AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true
AutoBackupInterval = 15
AutoBackupDir = /var/opensim/backup/test/
AutoBackupNaming = Time
Left my simulator run for a few more hours and still nothing was
saved.
Looking in my log file I only see the following.
2015-02-22 14:57:20,124 INFO -
OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.World.AutoBackup.AutoBackupModule [AUTO BACKUP]:
AutoBackupModule enabled
2015-02-22 14:57:20,128 DEBUG -
OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.World.AutoBackup.AutoBackupModule [AUTO BACKUP]:
Here is the default config:
2015-02-22 14:57:20,130 DEBUG -
OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.World.AutoBackup.AutoBackupModule [AUTO BACKUP]:
AutoBackup: DISABLED
[AUTO BACKUP]: Interval: 720 minutes
[AUTO BACKUP]: Do Busy Check: Yes
[AUTO BACKUP]: Naming Type: Time
[AUTO BACKUP]: Backup Dir: .
[AUTO BACKUP]: Script:
Searching my bin directory I do not see any file named
IRegionAutoBackupModule or anything even close.
I used the last zip file on OSGrid to build my simulator. I am
running on Linux Fedora 21.
The simulator has been dormant for the entire testing. Only logged
in once to make sure it was working.
I never say anything appear in the console window either.
Tom
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